boost engagement: include academic content in online discussions
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Boost Engagement:
Include Academic Content In Your Online
Discussions
byFred Feldon
January 2015
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
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Academic Content in
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Academic Content in
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Why are Discussion Boards so important?
Why bother?
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Discussion should be “the heart” of an
online (or face-to-face) class!
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Keeps students engaged
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One Week of a Student’s Electrodermal Activity (EDA)
Poh, Swenson & Picard, 2010 http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/10.Poh-etal-TBME-EDA-tests.pdf
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Students take an activerole in their learning, which
increases success and retention
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
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Academic Content in
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Anonymity and forethought encourages participation
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Builds skills in communicating mathematically
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Academic Content in
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“There must be far less telling on the part of the
teacher, and far more doing on the part of the student.” Jean Piaget
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Creates a sense of community
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Duplicates the interaction that normally takes place in a classroom
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Builds technical skills
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
Prepares students for “real life”
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Academic Content in
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So, let’s get to it!
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Academic Content in
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards“Insert Symbol”
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Screen Capture
Software
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Screen Capture
Software
http://www.techsmith.com/jing
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards“Math Equation Editor”
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards“Math Equation Editor”
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..
A picture’s worth a
thousandwords!
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Academic Content in
Discussion Boards
• Use a scanner to capture yourhandwriting
• Use your Cell Phone to take a picture• Use the Print Screen button• Use the Symbols pull-down menu• Use the Insert Media button• Use the Equation Editor
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Academic Content in
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Closing thoughts (for professors)…
• Create a warm and welcoming atmosphere that integrates studentssocially and academically into the course
• Allow enough wait time to ensure peer interaction and student self-discovery
• Avoid omniscient overbearing or evaluative posts that inhibit futureparticipation
• Start a new conversation when one is stale or there’s a period of silence(Add a relevant link to a current event, for example, post a funny comicor an extra credit puzzle or problem)
• Model the behavior you are trying to elicit from students• If the discussion board is boring for you, it will definitely be boring for
your students!• Sustained interaction becomes a rich environment for critical thinking to
flourish
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Academic Content in
Discussion BoardsClosing thoughts (for students)…
• Check the discussion board every time you log on to the course website; itshould be the first thing you do, the first place you go, before you doanything else
• Read every new message before you post one; your question may havealready been asked and answered
• Learn how to get your academic content (your solution to a problem, forexample, or a question from the online homework) on the screen withthe print screen button, screen capture software, a webcam, a camera, yourcell phone camera, a printer/scanner, etc.
• Learn how to add arrows, boxes, text, highlighting, etc. to your image• There is no “silly question.” What’s silly is not asking a question. The professor
and your fellow students will all appreciate it and learn something from it, guaranteed!
• If someone answers your question be sure to thank them then “close theloop” by saying you got it or ask for more help if you need it and continue the discussion
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Closing thought (for everyone)…
Discussion forum dialogue has the potential to be the most valuable learning opportunity in the online
environment!
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